Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “These things happened. Sometimes it might sound weird but sometimes life is like that. Sometimes life gets weird. You can try to ignore it or you can see where weird takes you.”

— Erin Morgenstern

252. “Because everything requires energy,′ she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. ‘We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

— Erin Morgenstern

253. “It’s never too late to change what you are, it took me a long time to figure that out.”

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254. “I’m more of a cocktail guy,” he says, though he is also of the opinion that sparkling wine is an anytime beverage and appreciates Mirabel’s style.”

— Erin Morgenstern

255. “He wishes he had brought the wine-colored book with him, but he is trying to make a point of not having his nose constantly in a book. It is an attempt to appear friendlier that he’s not certain is working yet.”

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256. “There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose.”

— Erin Morgenstern

257. “We are going to find each other and we are going to figure this out together. You may be by yourself but you are not alone.”

— Erin Morgenstern

258. “Magic is secreand secrets are magic...”

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259. “Thank you for seeing me when other people looked through me like I was a ghost.”

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260. “Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are.”

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261. “While earlier Marco had determined her to be little more than mildly intriguing and fairly pretty, this revelation is something more.”

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262. “I also think most of us are two steps away from jumping off something most of the time and you never know if the next day is going to push you in one direction or another.”

— Erin Morgenstern

263. “Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling.”

— Erin Morgenstern

264. “There are girls in feathered costumes who spin at various heights, suspended by ribbons that they can manipulate. Marionettes that control their own strings.”

— Erin Morgenstern

265. “He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves.”

— Erin Morgenstern

266. “I felt like we were right at that place where you go from being regular friends to help-you-move-dead-bodies friends but we weren’t quite there yet, like we needed to do one more side quest together and earn a few more mutual approval points and then it would be something a little more comfortable, but we hadn’t figured out our friendship dynamic entirely.”

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267. “This is not the first time they have stood together on these shores. It will not be the last. This is a story they will live over and over again, together and apart. The cage that contains them both is a large one that does not have a key. Not yet.”

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268. “It was all a matter of timing,” she says. “My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are.”

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269. “Not a single person in that audience believes for a second that what I do up there is real,” he says, gesturing in the general direction of the stage. “That’s the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. The audience cannot tell the difference beyond knowing that I am better at it.”

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270. “She is young enough to carry fear with her without letting it into her heart. Without being scared. She wears her fear lightly, like a veil, aware that there are dangers but letting the crackling awareness hover around her. It does not sink in, it buzzes in excitement like a swarm of invisible bees.”

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271. “There are many kinds of magic, after all.”

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272. “I’m in love with her.”

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273. “Can’t make an egg without breaking a few metaphors.”

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274. “He waits though once he never waited, would never dream to wait or wait to dream.”

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275. “If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”

— Erin Morgenstern

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276. “He was seeking immortality, which is a terrible thing to seek. It is not seeking anything, but rather avoiding the unavoidable.”

— Erin Morgenstern

277. “Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well.”

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278. “There are countless tattoos, and yet they meld and flow into one design gracefully adorning her like an elegant, unusual piece of jewelry.”

— Erin Morgenstern

279. “But he spends so much time in front of screens he has a near-compulsive need to let his eyeballs rest on paper.”

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280. “Yes,” Poppet says. “But what’s the use in seeing the future if I can’t do anything to stop it?” ” You cannot stop things,” Celia says. “You can only be prepared for them to happen.”

— Erin Morgenstern

281. “Each door will lead to a Harbor on the Starless Sea, if someone dares to open it.”

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282. “The breaking is the easy part. The pulling back together is the problem.”

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283. “Books are always better when read than explained.”

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284. “Only a single cat notices them in this moment and though the cat recognizes this mistake for what it is, it does not interfere. It is not the way of cats to interfere with fate.”

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285. “It looks a breath away from being a crumbling ruin. Held together by spinning planets and ticking clocks and wishful thinking and string.”

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286. “Devotion is for acolytes. Worthiness for guardians. Keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft.”

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287. “They are a nocturnal amalgam of social event and business meeting.”

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288. “It would not have been my choice for her, but a child should not have their choices dictated for them.”

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289. “Bailey feels oddly at ease. As though he is closer to the ground, but taller at the same time.”

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290. “For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.”

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291. “For a moment he can feel, sharply and strongly, within the air in his lungs, precisely what it is to lose and find and lose again, over and over and over.”

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292. “Symbols are for interpretation, not definition.”

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293. “But he doesn’t open the box anymore. It sits, firmly closed, in the tree. He thinks maybe he should throw it away, but he cannot bring himself to do it. Perhaps he will leave it in the tree and let the bark grow over it, sealing it inside.”

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294. “The circus left him behind, sailing forth, and yet he cannot turn away from the shore.”

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295. “And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.”

— Erin Morgenstern

Featured in: Book Quotes, Quotes About Stories

296. “The place is sprawling yet intimate. It is difficult to measure its breadth. Halls fold into rooms or galleries and stairs twist downward or upward to alcoves or arcades. Everywhere there are doors leading to new spaces and new stories and new secrets to be discovered and everywhere there are books.”

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297. “An accumulation of unforeseen circumstances.”

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298. “Los secretos tienen poder. Y ese poder disminuye cuando son compartidos, asi que estan bien guardados y bien cuidados. Compartir secretos, secretos reales, importantes, con una persona, los cambiara.”

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299. “Important things hurt sometimes.”

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300. “The stories of a place are not easily contained.”

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